Sex crackpot, liberal left Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's close connection to the Obamas and Clintons

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:03 UTC

Former president Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein

Hollywood producer and liberal left hero Harvey Weinstein has become toxic as a New York Times expose detailed decades of sexual harassment of aspiring actresses. Big surprise, who would have thought that liberal left Hollywood elites are complete hypocrites.

One power couple Weinstein was particularly found of was the Clintons. We can see why Weinstein and Bill Clinton would get along. The conversations they must have had.

Weinstein was one of Hillary Clinton's biggest donors, having raised millions for the pathetic loser Democratic presidential candidate.

Hillary Clinton has yet to disavow Weinstein's actions or return his large financial contributions made to the Clinton campaign.

Page Six reported...

Harvey Weinstein is throwing a starry fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on Monday with co-hosts Leo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Weinstein and his designer wife, Georgina Chapman, are planning a dinner and conversation with Clinton at their Manhattan home to benefit the Hillary Victory Fund.

We're told the event will be for around 50. Weinstein has hosted fundraisers at his townhouse, as well as his home in Connecticut, for President Obama in 2011, '12 and '13.

According to The Gateway Pundit, the fundraiser for Clinton brought in $1.8 million.

From Deadline...

Something in the neighborhood of $1.8 million was raised at Harvey Weinstein's star-packed fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City Monday night, sources tell Deadline. The event for 50 or so Clinton supporters at Weinstein's Manhattan home drew some major Hollywood names, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Bethenny Frankel and designers Vera Wang and Tory Burch.

Weinstein threw a lavish concert for Hillary Clinton at the St. James Theatre...

THR wrote...

Hosted by Billy Crystal, the Oct. 17 evening at the St. James Theatre will include performances and appearances by Julia Roberts, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hugh Jackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emily Blunt, Angela Bassett, Neil Patrick Harris, Helen Mirren and more.

Broadway is bulking up for Hillary Clinton.

Stephen Schwartz, Harvey Weinstein, Jordan Roth, Richie Jackson and Anna Wintour are producing a star-studded fundraiser concert in support of the Democratic presidential candidate. The show will be livestreamed on Clinton's website as well as her campaign's YouTube and Facebook pages

Weinstein was also a big supporter of former POTUS Barack Obama.

Michelle Obama gushed about what an "inspiration" Weinstein was.

White House archives from a 2013 event: "Remarks by the First Lady at Careers in Film Symposium."

MRS. OBAMA: Oh, I can tell. I want to start by thanking Harvey Weinstein for organizing this amazing day. (Applause.) Harvey. This is possible because of Harvey. He is a wonderful human being, a good friend and just a powerhouse. And the fact that he and his team took the time to make this happen for all of you should say something not about me or about this place, but about you. Everybody - we are here because of you.

To be fair not all Democrats are remaining silent on Weinstein's past.

Via The Gateway Pundit...

According to ABC News' Ali Rogan, a spokesperson for Senator Cory Booker says the 2020 hopeful is donating $7800 from the embattled Hollywood producer to New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. More Democrats have followed suit, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Comment: Weinstein visited the Obama White House 13 times, nine of which were visits with Obama himself: "Other visits were with high-level staffers Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama's aide Melissa Winter, and Jeremy Weinstein, who served on the National Security Council between 2009 and 2011."

Democrats on the receiving end of Weinstein's donations are being urged to return the "dirty" money:

At least three Democrats have already said they will donate money they received from Weinstein to charitable causes.

A representative for Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in an email Friday that Blumenthal would donate his contribution from Weinstein to the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence. Weinstein contributed $5,400 to Blumenthal in October of last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Meanwhile, the campaign manager for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) told CNN that the $5,600 Leahy received from Weinstein in campaign contributions would be donated to the Women's Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation, while a representative for Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) told the outlet his $5,400 contribution would be donated to the non-profit Community Against Violence in New Mexico.
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"During three-decades worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars," RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney-McDaniel said in a statement. "If Democrats and the DNC truly stand up for women like they say they do, then returning this dirty money should be a no brainer."

The late-night hosts who couldn't get enough of the allegations against Trump and Bill O'Reilly were noticeably silent about the Weinstein scandal. Imagine that.

Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, James Corden, and Stephen Colbert all seemingly passed on the Weinstein news, both in their monologues and interviews with movie-star guests.

...now that Weinstein's sordid practices are out in the open, people are coming out of the woodwork to refer to the allegations as one of the "worst kept secrets" in the industry. Many people apparently knew full well that he was a creep, and that treated women this way, for decades. Yet he was feted, awarded, and applauded in those same glamorous cliques because he could make and break careers.

As the Washington Examiner asks, if Weinstein's secret was so well known, how many democrats knew and took his money anyway?

Actress Lena Dunham referred to a "flimsy but firm veil of secrecy." In The Cut, journalist Rebecca Traister wrote, "I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years." Axios ran an article headlined, "Harvey Weinstein was Hollywood's biggest open secret." CNN anchor Jake Tapper reported that a Hollywood producer told him, "Shocked it's taken so long for a Harvey Weinstein behavior expose. One of the most open secrets in Hollywood."
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Weinstein's trail of political donations is long and his contributions benefitted many prominent Democrats. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, those lawmakers include: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Al Franken, D-Minn., Richard Bluementhal, D-Conn., Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

It also includes former Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Harry Reid, D-Nev., Tom Daschle, D-S.D., former Gov. Howard Dean, D-Vt., former Secretary of State John Kerry, and former President Bill Clinton.

Don't forget the hundreds of thousands of dollars Weinstein donated to the DNC, DSCC, and DCCC as well.

Given that his behavior was apparently an "open secret" in Hollywood, it's worth questioning how it's possible that none of those Democrats, who claim to be staunch supporters of women's rights, were aware of Weinstein's reputation. Hollywood and Washington are separate worlds, but politicians, and especially Democrats, travel in circles that include plenty of powerful people from the entertainment industry. It's difficult to imagine high-profile Democrats such as the Clintons, Obamas, Franken, and Schumer were ignorant of the rumblings about Weinstein's conduct towards women.

An excerpt from the article by Rebecca Traister in The Cut referenced above:

The conversations started when I was a young editorial assistant at Talk, the magazine he financed, in 1999; back then it was with young people, friends - women and men - who worked for him, at Miramax, and told tales of hotel rooms, nudity, suggestion, and coercion, and then of whispered payoffs, former assistants who seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth. ...

In my mid-20s, I became a reporter and fact checker at the New York Observer, and part of my beat was covering the film business in New York. The night before the 2000 election, I was working on a story - perhaps my first seriously reported story - about O, the violent reimagining of Othello that Miramax's Dimension division was then sitting on, perhaps out of deference to the cringey clean-media message of the Al Gore-Joe Lieberman campaign, which Weinstein was publicly supporting; already there was talk of Weinstein's ambitions in Democratic politics. After Weinstein failed to respond to my calls for comment, I was sent, on Election Eve 2000, to cover a book party he was hosting, along with my colleague Andrew Goldman. Weinstein didn't like my question about O, there was an altercation; though the recording has alas been lost to time, I recall that he called me a cunt and declared that he was glad he was the "fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town." When my colleague Andrew (who was also then my boyfriend) intervened, first calming him down and then trying to extract an apology, Weinstein went nuclear, pushing Andrew down a set of steps inside the Tribeca Grand - knocking him over with such force that his tape recorder hit a woman, who suffered long-term injury - and dragging Andrew, in a headlock, onto Sixth Avenue.

Such was the power of Harvey Weinstein in 2000 that despite the dozens of camera flashes that went off on that sidewalk that night, capturing the sight of an enormously famous film executive trying to pound in the head of a young newspaper reporter, I have never once seen a photo. Back then, Harvey could spin - or suppress - anything; there were so many journalists on his payroll, working as consultants on movie projects, or as screenwriters, or for his magazine.